Back to the Modern World: Bustling Bangkok
June 26th 2006 Arrival in Bangkok
We arrived in Bangkok realizing (not surprisingly) how different it is than Myanmar. It was just exciting to be able to use an ATM and have a currency traded in world markets. (That being said, I'm glad I didn't have a lot of Thai baht in 1997...)
Driving into Bangkok, we appreciated the large size of the city (6 million people). Not close to Beijing or Shanghai,
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